The thoughts we've expressed here stem from a fundamental belief that in coping with legislation like this.... I make two points. First of all, for most of our members, and that would certainly include the smaller members, we're only three years in, and in the scheme of legislative enactment in Canada that's very young.
I would couple that with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's own comments about...and I think the arrival of the current commissioner was almost coincident with that phase, in January, 2004, where the bulk of companies in Canada got captured by the act.
As the commissioner herself has indicated to you, there are lots of preoccupations there for her, to do things in the office other than get on with the core work of implementing the act.
So it's early days, and I think that's the philosophy behind the recommendations.
As to our view on whether this is something that's shared across our membership, I would say it is, very strongly. This is a case where three years in on any bill, and particularly one that affects so many of our members, is really early days.
To change it today, when you're still in the educational phase for a lot of them in terms of their building themselves up to deal with the important elements of the act, I think is going to complicate life a lot more than we need to at this stage.